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who are your spiritual teacher(s)

nibiru, i went to a rainbow gathering when i was in british columbia and really didnt like it. seemed like too much 'hippy-dippy'crap, like look how open and free we are, we accept everyone and everything. i dont know, i probably didnt take enough shrooms when i wasthere :) dont mean to be insulting just not my thing i guess, though i imagine they can vary a lot depending on where you are. and i do know some really cool people whoare into it.

swillow, course the teacher doesnt have to be a person.

wanted to throw in another one Ramana Maharshi, he doesnt have a whole lot in the way of teaching besides asking yourself 'who am i?' and peeling away the layers of ego until you arrive at your true self.
 
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I was about to say Sri Ramana Maharshi and Genpo Roshi

Two great masters of the "pointing out" methodology.
 
Charles Bukowski: sitting alone in a room writing your thoughts while you drink the cheapest beers and whiskeys, giving the broads a little turkey neck is the best you can expect out of life.

Well actually I don't really have many spiritual teachers. Eckhart Tolle comes pretty close though even if he's hated in the buddhist community, just because you appear on oprah means you're a sell out, whatever :p

It's hard to know who's just out to milk money though, I know Deepak Chopra is full of shit. Tolle kind of borders on there charging 300 dollars to hear him speak is ludicrous.

Thich thanh nhan is pretty good too. Um maybe Ram Dass? That book he made in the 60's is pretty good.
 
^yeah, the only thing i really hate about tolle is the huge fee for seeing him talk. (however if he like donates that money to worthy causes then i guess its cool to rip off some rich americans, though im not sure if this happens) but i really liked his books, seemed like very simplified buddhism to me. and im totally cool with him being promoted by oprah. When i was a senior in high school i read "grist for the mill," really powerful at the time, love ram dass.
 
daysonatrain said:
the title says it, who are your spiritual teacher(s), ifyou have one, and why? IMO all truly enlightened people speak of the same thing they just use different words to attempt to describe the indescribable. each teacher also speaks better to certain types of personalities.

mine have changed over the years, and as my 'beliefs' changed. however, recently i have beenreally into adyashanti. hes very down to earth and describes the enlightened state in a western context.

http://www.adyashanti.org/index.php?file=teachings

would love to learn about some others.
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I just checked out that link and read most of the writings posted on the site and I think he is very concise, and cuts away delusion and illuminates your true nature he conceptualizes emptiness in an enlightening way. If you read enough of the eastern philosophy you will notice a very recurrent pattern, infinite numbers of cultural expressions of emptiness. And in the end emptiness is always already emptiness and these are merely dead symbols on a page that are also of Buddha-nature emptiness, there is none other than conscious emptiness there is no other, there is no self all is emptiness. There is nothing to be attained, there are no relationships because there is no self.
 
^I just thought it odd because you dreamt it, and the only site referring to it was called common dreams....

Jamshyd said:

I will try to find you a good place to start, as I am actually in the process of reviewing my texts as we speak, having not touched them for a year due to being abroad.
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That would be great Jammy...I don't mind a bit of head-wrangling stuff, as I would like to understand all things better, and don't mind a challenge. :) %)
 
prophet muhammed (sav)
aleister crowley the master therion, frater perdurabo
blavatsky
eliphas levi
papaver somniferum
 
swilow said:
Gurjieff was an interesting chracter...not sure how 'genuine' though....
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Ive wanted to check him out for a while Aldous Huxley and Robert Anton Wilson mention him frequently i am not too familiar with the "occult" etc. but if I understand right a lot of the recent occultists borrowed a lot from him.
 
I have many but foremost I think I would say Rebbe Nachman, founder fot he Bratzlaver (Breslov) school of Chassidic Jewry. Lived at the turn of the
18th/19th Centuries CE/AD in what is now Ukraine (buried in Uman). Greatgrandson of the BESH'T, AKA Ba'al Shem Tov AKA Yisroel Ben Eliezer, the founder modern Chassidic Jewry.

Nachman believed his ancestor to be correct in his teachings which at the time (and still today) were being preverted. no man can interce for any other man before G-D. We must all worship in our hearts with much less attention to outward appearances. Best place to commune with G-D is not in a house of worship but either in a quiet natural setting, or in sexual congress, or better yet acombination of both!


Meditation, intoxicants, singing, dancing, happiness and smiling are all core values in this school.

I personally respect Rav Akiba Ben Yosef AKA Rabbi Akiva a whole lot. Illiterate until age 40, a shepard he dreamed of alife of study. One day, at 40, his wife told him to pursuse his dream that G-D would provide and to make along story short, he became one of the most remembered and hounored rabbis in all of our faith.

In more secular matters, I respect the teachings of Rav Meir Kahane, founder of the KACH political party in Israel, until it was make illegal because of the movements violent radicalism.
 
another one to throw in, stephen levine's book Who Dies? very interesting study of what death is and means to modern man. The middle ofthe book is a bit long winded, but i loved the beginning and end. (he co-wrote Grist for the Mill with Ram Dass and i can see alot of his influence in it).

also Soygnal Rimpoche (sp?), author of Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, another great 'hippy' buddhism fav.
 
hmm my father
My chi kung and martial arts teacher (Larry) white elephant monastary
The earth mother
San pedro cactus
Marijuana
Kava Kava
KRatom
Lao tzu
Oasis (yes the band)
Trance music
Vodka
Fear
Trees
Flowers
Honey
 
Paramahansa Yogananda
Thich Nhat Hahn
The Dalai Lamma
Buddha
The vedic texts
Ariel Bravy (check out his blog www.arielbravy.com)
Buddha
Jesus
LaoTzu
Chan Tzu
Wayne Dryer (possible sell out yes, but his words make sense to me)
My mother
My father
MDMA
LSD
Mushrooms
Salvia
The universe
My friends Sharoni, Shannon and Jeanine
Meditation
My past lives
Donna Kiss (a medium I went to)
 
Anusara yoga, teaching me that my natural state (my "factory setting") is joy.

My adversaries, especially at work. I've never learned so much about myself than when I'm up against someone who doesn't understand me.
 
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